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London — best places to live in the UK 2018

Average house price: £526,380

The Sunday Times

March 18 2018, 12:01am, The Sunday Times

High life: the average London house price is now 14.5 times the typical salaryGETTY IMAGS/AXIOM RM

The closest many of us will get to buying property in the capital is on the Monopoly board. The average London house price has risen by a whopping 350% since 1998 and is now 14.5 times the typical salary (gulp). Since the 2008 downturn, values in the City of Westminster have soared by 135%, and in the past five years they’ve grown by 84% out east in Waltham Forest, which is now a first-time-buyer hotspot, according to Countrywide estate agency and the Office for National Statistics.

Even with the recent slowdown (average prices down 4.3% in a year), we struggled to choose this year’s best places to live in London, with so many obvious contenders out of reach for the vast majority. We’ve had to…

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